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While millions of sports fans enjoyed the NFL Superbowl between the Green Bay Packers and the New England Patriots, former sex slave Toni D. Rivera was stuck in a harrowing situation inside a seedy hotel where she was forced to pay off her pimp’s losing bet with her body. When the Packers lost that game…

R. Kelly has requested to be released from jail again. The “Ignition” hitmaker was recently denied bail when he asked to be released from Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center — where he is being held on charges that include sex trafficking, racketeering, and child pornography — amid the coronavirus pandemic. But the initial decision hasn’t stopped him from…

R. Kelly’s sex crimes trial in New York has been pushed back. The “Ignition” hitmaker was initially set to be tried in Brooklyn, New York, for charges that include sex trafficking, racketeering, and child pornography in May this year, but on Thursday, Feb 6, 2020, a judge at a pre-trial hearing pushed the back the…

After milking the “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary for every last dollar, the Lifetime channel has announced that it is finally moving onto another alleged sexual assault perpetrator. One year after the six-part docu-series revolving around Robert Sylvester Kelly’s ruining his life and career — and may send him to prison for life — Lifetime is…

R. Kelly’s accuser Faith Rodgers says he “needs to go to jail forever.” Rodgers, 21, is one of the women who have accused the “Ignition” hitmaker of sexual abuse and has now said she hopes to see the disgraced musician put behind bars for many years. Speaking to CBS News, Rodgers said: “He needs to…

Cyntoia Brown-Long became a victim of sex trafficking as a teenager. After years of being in and out of juvenile facilities, she ran away from home and met a man, Garion “Kut Throat” McGlothen, who forced her into prostitution. Her story is similar to millions who have been victims of sex trafficking. She would eventually…

When R. Kelly was busying himself as one the all-time great singers, songwriters and producers, he could get away with not being able to read or write because he was always surrounded by a loyal team to handle his affairs. But R. Kelly’s illiteracy has caught up with him in a devastating way now that…

Now free from the Tennessee Prison for Women for exactly two weeks, sex trafficking survivor Cyntoia Brown is introspective and eternally grateful for being able to do the small things after 15 years in prison. “I am loving every single thing about being in my own home,” the 31-year-old said according to NBC News, adding…

Cyntoia Brown, the former sex trafficking victim who was sentenced to two life sentences for killing a man before being granted clemency, is now a married woman, according to her attorney as well as CBS 17, The Tennessean and WKRN News 2. Brown’s attorney, Ed Yarbrough, told WKRN News 2 that when Brown was released…

R. Kelly fears being killed while he’s in jail. The disgraced singer is currently behind bars after being denied bond by a judge earlier this week, but he’s told his lawyer, Nicole Blank Becker, that he doesn’t mind being in solitary confinement in federal prison because he feels safer as he’s aware other inmates know…

R. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to 13 alleged sex trafficking charges. The “Ignition” hitmaker was arrested on the charges — which also included charges for alleged child pornography and obstruction of justice — earlier this month, after he was already arrested on two separate occasions for 11 felonies related to sexual assault and abuse, and…

In addition to the state indictments on criminal sexual abuse against embattled singer R. Kelly in Chicago, he is also likely to face another set of indictments on a federal level, the media has learned. The “Step in the Name of Love” singer is expected to be indicted on sex trafficking and tax evasion charges…

If singer R. Kelly really did construct an elaborate sex cult society in Chicago and Atlanta and trafficked young women from across the country, then he could not have pulled off this multipronged operation by himself. If that is true, the feds believe Kelly had lots of help running his alleged criminal endeavor. The U.S. Department…

Since Harlem was recognized for its Renaissance in the 1920s, people have been seeking the next place to tout as a Black mecca — a place that attracts people and the dreams of those living there. The definition holds steady, but does the location? In 1973, Black communities and progressive Whites brokered the deal that made…

At the age of 16, Cyntoia Brown was allegedly raped and trafficked by a pimp named “KuttThroat” in Nashville, Tennessee. Brown soon found herself servicing numerous men until she was sold to a Nashville realtor named Johnny Allen. After being raped by Allen repeatedly, she shot him to death with his own gun. In 2004, Brown was…

A family’s hunt for their missing child just took a dramatic and disturbing turn after an arrest of an aspiring rapper from the Bronx. Back in September 2017, Corinna Slusser, 19, traveled to New York City from her hometown of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. In the months prior her to move, NBC news reported that Slusser had…

“Married to Medicine’s” newest cast member Genise Shelton is using her platform to do all she can to prevent sex trafficking in one of the largest trafficking hubs, Atlanta. Read on to find out what Shelton is doing about the sex-trafficking epidemic and why it’s important for the community to get involved. What does self-care mean…

Celebrity spouse and reality star Kim Kardashian West has stepped into the issue of mass incarceration after being moved by the plight of two women. It is being reported that Kardashian has hired Los Angeles-based criminal lawyer Shawn Holley to help in the cases of Alice Johnson, 62, and Cyntoia Brown, 29, Black women who…

Brock Franklin, 31, was sentenced for his hand in brutalizing women and girls. His punishment is being described as the longest in U.S. history for a human trafficking case. Reports estimate 4M victims of human trafficking are forced into sexual exploitation. Franklin’s victims were drugged (specifically with ecstasy, aka Molly), pistol-whipped, tracked by the GPS on…